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iAfrica 42 mins ago 3 min read Share with your network! SATSA, the voice of inbound tourism, has welcomed this weekend’s release, by Environmental Affairs Minister Barbara Creecy, of the High-Level Panel report which advocates putting an end to captive lion breeding. The panel was established in August 2018 and concluded its work in December 2020, submitting recommendations on policies, re...

Breaking: SA bans captive breeding for trophy hunting, lion bone trade Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Minister Barbara Creecy took crucial steps towards changing the status quo of the commercial captive lion breeding industry in South Africa. Creecy announced at a stakeholder’s feedback meeting in Pretoria on Sunday 2 May that South Africa will no longer breed captive lions, keep lions in captivity, or use captive lions or their derivatives commercially. The m...

In December 2018, the High-Level Review Panel into the State Security Agency (SSA) appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa published its highly critical findings, saying that the growing contagion of the civilian intelligence community by the factionalism in the African National Congress (ANC) had progressively worsened from 2009. The panel added that from about 2009 there was a marked doctrinal shift in the intelligence community from the prescripts of the Constitution, the White Paper on Intel...

The report began with the 2018 Parliamentary Colloquium on lion farming and would probably not have happened without that historic kickstart. It’s merely a report of course, albeit a massive and comprehensive one, and many reports have been buried and forgotten in the past. What started in Parliament must now end in Parliament as law, and that still lies ahead.  But the momentum that propelled the report goes much further back than 2018 and this is more likely to accelerate than to slow.  T...

Canned hunting canned: Minister Creecy announces ‘new deal’ for South Africa’s wildlife industry © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved In an unprecedented move to reposition South Africa as a world leader in wildlife conservation, the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries has called for the protection of iconic wild animals to be prioritised over the cruelty of commercial exploitation. The 580-page High-Level Panel (HLP) report is the result of nearly two year...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn The industry "poses risks to the sustainability of wild lion conservation." • 6 min read Inside South Africas lion bone trade A landmark court ruling this week has brought a sense of hope to those calling on South Africa to ban captive lion breeding and bone trade.Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters, FILE LONDON -- South Africa announced Sunday it plans to end its multimillion-dollar captive lion industry and said it won’...

Private sector engagement in internal displacement – recommendations for policy makers Format Heightened attention and action are needed to address the global internal displacement crisis. As the private sector can play an indispensable role in supporting forcibly displaced people, it is important to unpack how their contributions can be leveraged and maximized. Following consultations with the CBi Member Networks, here are some ideas how the Connecting Business initiative encourages policy m...

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Warming Sudan-South Sudan Ties Yet to Deliver ‘Change on the Ground’, Peacekeeping Chief Tells Security Council, in Briefing on Disputed Abyei Region Format SC/14505 Khartoum, Juba Focused on Political Transition, Regional Dynamics, Says Special Envoy, as Delegates Highlight Rapprochement The new rapprochement between Sudan and South Sudan has yet to translate into significant improvements on the ground in relation to their dispute over the Abyei region, the head of United Nations peacekeep...

OGONE TLHAGE WINDHOEK Newly appointed defence minister Frans Kapofi has defended his record on corruption ahead of his switch to the defence ministry, which finds itself at the centre of several investigations related to corruption. His appointment as defence minister, which Namibian Sun predicted days after former defence minister Peter Vilho had been removed, was confirmed on Wednesday evening. SME Bank Kapofi’s reputation came into question after his spell as board chairperson at the now d...